2022 HARMONIA INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR
PIANO
COMPETITION

IST PRIZE - NOAH DEGARMO

Physician

Noah DeGarmo’s lifetime goal: to be a physician who is active in music. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Cornell University, the Carlisle, Massachusetts native graduated medical school at Columbia University and completed his residency at Northwestern University. Now a respected and well-published emergency medicine physician, he holds a position at Arlington Memorial Hospital. He grew up seriously studying the piano and lamented the limited performance opportunity after college, which led to amateur competition participation. Most recently he was a semifinalist and jury discretionary award winner at the 2022 Amateur Cliburn. Having struggled with tendonitis since he was 18, he also has a passion for helping musicians with the prevention of performance- and practice-related injury. In 2019 he formed the Boulanger Piano Quintet in Dallas and he will be performing Gershwin’s Second Rhapsody as soloist with the World Doctor’s Orchestra during their October 2023 Dallas concert.

2ND PRIZE - IAN ROY

Engineer

Ian Roy Ian Roy was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and attended Wick High School. He began playing the piano at age eight and studied initially with Emma Bruce in Wick. After leaving Wick High School he studied for two degrees in maths and physics at the University of Aberdeen. He then worked on two research contracts at the universities of Plymouth and Newcastle upon Tyne. Thereafter he worked for the ship safety department of QinetiQ at Rosyth and then Petex in Edinburgh. Since 2012 he has worked for the Coventry-based firm of OLEO International.

3RD PRIZE - ALAIN MARI

Software Engineer

I started playing the piano at the age of 6. I then entered the conservatory of Nice (France) where I won the first prize in 1988. Afterwards, I put the piano aside to devote myself to my studies, but briefly resumed it in order to take part in a student concert. I seriously played the piano again in 2014 on my own, without a teacher. I won the first prize in the "La Note Celeste" competition in 2020 and I was a finalist in the "Pianolink" 2020 competition. I performed in public for the first time in many years at the final of this competition. In 2021, I won the 2nd prize in Piano Bridges competition. Currently a computer engineer, I am passionate about music and computer science, and these two seemingly very different worlds have this in common that they allow you to create, to create something new. My favorite repertoire ranges from baroque music with Bach or Scarlatti to the music of the 20th century, through the romantic music of Chopin.